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Published: Wednesday, 09 January 2013 07:18
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“…My illness is preventing me carrying out my profession as a dentist... Please help me as I am in a financial mess which is making my health worse” The BDA Benevolent Fund has been helping dentists and their families ever since 1882. It is thanks to the generosity of the dental profession that the Fund has survived all these years and can still assist those who find themselves facing hardship.
Read more: Make a New Year’s resolution to help the BDA Benevolent Fund
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Published: Tuesday, 01 January 2013 18:55
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Happy New Year for 2013 to all GDPUK members and readers from Tony Jacobs and the growing GDPUK team.
GDPUK is pleased to announce the launching of the GDPUK forums onto smartphones. The GDPUK website now has most sections optimised for mobile devices, and users can switch between views.
Read more: GDPUK announces smartphone view of forum
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Published: Saturday, 29 December 2012 11:51
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Published: Friday, 28 December 2012 09:31
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A new study from the USA claims that people who drink more than four cups of caffeinated coffee a day have half the risk of dying from oral/pharyngeal cancer compared with people who drink it either occasionally or not at all. However, the researchers say their findings need to be confirmed by more research.
Read more: Coffee drinking may halve risk of oral cancer
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Published: Saturday, 22 December 2012 12:19
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A mobile ‘tooth bus’ – which contains a dentists’ chair, computer and dental equipment – will be driven to various towns in Oxfordshire until February next year. It will offer free check ups to anyone who lives in Oxfordshire who has not seen an NHS dentist in the last two years. If a patient on the tooth bus needs treatment, they will be referred to their nearest NHS dental practice, where usual NHS charges apply.
Read more: Mobile ‘tooth bus’ tours Oxfordshire
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Published: Friday, 21 December 2012 17:28
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Last week Google released their Zeitgeist report, detailing the most searched for queries of 2012 by their users. Google has examined the 1.2 trillion searches performed throughout the past year and has provided top ten lists in various categories, such as trending image searches, and most searched for people.
Guest Reporter: Helen Warder
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Published: Thursday, 20 December 2012 12:34
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A total of 29.6 million patients were seen in the 24 month period ending September 2012, an increase of 1.4 million on March 2006. The number of children seen by an NHS dentist is equal to the figure for March 2006 of 7.8 million There were an estimated 9.7 million Courses of Treatment (CoTs) in Q1 2012/13, a decrease of 103 thousand (1.1 per cent) on Q1 2011/12.
Read more: Latest figures for NHS dentistry published
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Published: Tuesday, 18 December 2012 12:55
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A patient has been awarded £9,000 in compensation after a dentist removed a healthy tooth by mistake. James Lacey, 44, was referred to Manchester Dental Hospital after being struck down with agonising pain. Three teeth should have been removed but afterwards Mr Lacey noticed that another tooth had been extracted.
Read more: Wrong tooth costs £9000
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Published: Tuesday, 18 December 2012 12:55
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A new study confirms the emotional transmission of dentist fear among family members and analyses the different roles that mothers and fathers might play. The research, conducted by scientists at the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, highlights the important role that fathers especially play in the transmission of dentist fear in their family.
Read more: Fathers transmit dental fear to their children
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